Soft-collar button.



A. HADLEY SOFT COLLAR BUTTON. APPLICATION FILED JAN-26, 1911.

LQQQEWQ Patented June 12, 1917.

ART HADLEY, OF EROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND.

SOFT-GQLLAE BUTTON.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

iatented June 12, 193%.

Application filed January 26, 1917.- $eria11qo. 144,750.

' T all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Am HADLEY, a subject of the King of Great Britain, residing at Providence, in the county of Providence and State of lihode Island, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Soft- Collar Buttons, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in soft collar buttons, and the primary object of the invention is to provide a button which connects the ends or flaps of soft turn'down collars in such manner as to effectively hold the ends under tension, and to also provide a button or fastener which is flexible so as to afford no discomforture to the wearer.

Still further, the invention aims to provide a fastener which can be easily and quickly applied to and removed from the collar, and which by reason of being resilient, can be more easily and quickly manipulated to secure the heads of the device in the usual button-holes of the collarends.

Other and further objects will be later set forth and manifested in the course of the following specification.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a front elevation of the invention in position on a collar.

Fig. 2 is a plan view showing the casings in longitudinal section, and

Fig. 3 is an end elevation.

The invention embodies a pair of tubular sleeve-like casings 1 of similar construction, contracted at their inner ends at 2 and havingtheir opposite ends provided with walls 3 perforated at 4:. The contracted inner ends 2 are connected by means of a link 5 having a ball 6 on each end thereof, which balls are engaged within the casings 1 and serve to universally connect the casings.

Steins 7 slide within the casings l and have disks 8 affixed to their inner ends, the opposite end parts of the stems being passed through the perforations 4 of the walls 3. Coil springs 9 encircle the stems and abut against the walls 3 and the disks 8 and serve to normally force the disks 8 against the balls 6. The outer ends of the stems are curved at 10 and are provided with eyes 11 which latter are engaged by eyes 12 formed on the button heads B. lrhe curvature of the stems enables the shanks provided by the eyes 12 of the heads B to be'disposed at right angles to the longitudinal axis of the device proper, time allowing the heads to properly engage the collar ends as depicted. in Fig. l of the drawings.

From the foregoing it will be apparent that the button heads are also in universal connection With the fastener, so that ma-Xi- .inum flexibility is provided with the nniver sal connection between the casings.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is- 1. In a soft collar button, a pair of tubnlar casings contracted at their inner ends and having outer end perforated walls, a link having a head on each end received in the casings and engaged with said contracted ends thereof to allow of universal move-- ment of each casing, a stem in each casing slidable throhgh the perforations in the end walls thereof and having disks on their inner ends, coil springs encircling the stems and engaged ith the disks and said end walls, said stems having their outer ends curved, and heads having universal connections with the curved ends of the stems.

2. In a button, a pair of casings, a link having a ball on each end, said balls being received in the respective inner ends of the casings so as to have universal movement therein, a slidable spring-pressed stem in each casing, and a button head connected to the outer end of each stem. 7

3. In a button, a pair of casings, means connecting the casings to allow of universal movement of each, a head for each casing, and spring-pressed stems within the casings and connected to the heads and movable independently of said connecting means.

4. In a button, a pair of casings having their inner ends spaced and having sockets formed therein, a link bridging the space between said casings and having a ball on each end received in the respective sockets, button heads for the casings, and means to resiliently connect the button heads to the casings and to hold the balls in their respective sockets.

5. In a button, a pair of spaced casings having sockets in their inner ends, means bridging the casings and having parts in the sockets to movably connect the casings, a head for each casing, and spring means connecting the heads to the casings and for normally holding said parts of the connecting means in their sockets.

6. In a button, a pair of spaced casings,

I I A T t means movably connecting the casings and In testinilony whereof i have signed my extendlng across said space, a sprlng pressed name to thls specification 1n the presence of stem in each casing, said stems having their two SllbSCIlblllg Witnesses.

outer ends turned at substantially right an- .ART HADLEY. glesto the longitudinal axes of the casings, Witnesses:

and a button head movavbly connected to ADA E. HAGERTY,

each of the right angular ends of the stems. J. A. MILLER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents.

' 1 Washington, I). l 

